Generations of officers and men of Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, together with the vast number of scientific and technological workers, wrote the immortal epic of China's cutting-edge scientific research, creating brilliant achievements in China's space history: 40 satellites, 6 spaceships and rockets were successfully launched ... At the same time, 52 young people were killed, with an average age of only over 20 years old.
Reading the deeds of this advanced collective and this group of special officers and men, we can't help but think of such a group of people and such a spirit, that is, the spirit of the Red Army's Long March.
Exactly 70 years ago, when the three Long March armies embraced in the northwest loess plateau, behind them was a great epic rarely seen in the world: there was an encounter almost every day, with an average rest of 365 Li and an average March of 74 Li per day. ...
From Long March Road to Tian Fei Road, the same spirit runs through two great epics. This is the spirit of independent innovation and dare to be the first, this is the spirit of perseverance and courage to win, this is the spirit of selfless dedication and courage to sacrifice.
On the way to the Long March, the producers in China independently solved the major problems of the China Revolution for the first time, which turned the fate and future of the Party, the Red Army and the China Revolution into safety. On the way to the Long March, the party led the Red Army to break through the encirclement and interception of its own enemies several times or even ten times; On the way to the Long March, heroic Red Army soldiers crossed the snowy mountains and grasslands, and more than 400 cadres at or above the battalion level died.
As the most precious spiritual wealth of the Chinese nation, the Long March spirit is endless, and the source of the aerospace spirit is undoubtedly the Long March spirit.
The leap of China's space industry also depends on independent innovation and continuous self-improvement, and on the brave sacrifice and dedication of space officers and soldiers and the vast number of scientific and technological workers. Faced with a series of blockades in the high-tech field by developed countries, they started from self-reliance and developed through independent innovation; In the face of harsh environmental conditions, they sleep against the wind; In the face of repeated dangerous experimental tasks, they gave their young lives, and even chose the desert as their final destination after their death, watching the eternal bonfire in the vast wasteland and the brilliant take-off in China's aerospace and cutting-edge scientific research fields again and again.
They are worthy of the descendants of the Red Army; They are worthy of being the relays of the Long March.
General Sun Jixian led seventeen warriors to cross the Dadu River in the Long March, and became the first commander of Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, the first comprehensive missile test site in China, 48 years ago. Marshal Nie, who participated in the command of that battle, became the founder of China's advanced national defense science and technology and space industry.
It's not just a coincidence that both the marshal and the general chose their destination under the launch pad in the Gobi desert, and China's launch vehicle was also named "Long March".
When a rocket soared into the sky, almost all mankind saw two completely different signs on the arrow: the Long March.
The spirit of the Long March has been passed down from generation to generation. On the new journey of human exploration of space, the successors of the Long March will undoubtedly write a better new epic.